A selection of photos shot recently from around the world:

Visitors check a giant lantern at a light festival held to celebrate the upcoming New Year and Chinese Lunar New Year in Haikou, Hainan province, China December 28, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)
Egyptians take a photo near an illumination in the shape of a peacock ahead of New Year celebrations, at the pedestrian area of Soho Square in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, south of Cairo, Egypt December 30, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)
Clark, a bald eagle, flies over the field before the 2018 Cotton Bowl college football playoff semifinal game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Clemson Tigers at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, United States, on Dec 29, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)
People walk past the ruins of a medieval castle on a foggy day in the Belarusian town of Novogrudok, 150 km (93 miles) west of the capital Minsk, December 30, 2018, as temperature kept to around 2 degrees Celsius (35 Fahrenheit). (Photo by AP)
A man walks on a footbridge over the partially frozen of Dal lake on a cold winter morning in Srinagar December 31, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)
In this file photo taken on October 31, 2018 race boats are docked on October 31, 2018 in the harbour of Saint-Malo, Brittany, few days ahead of the start of the 40th Route du Rhum solo sailing race. (Photo by AFP)
Ducks are seen in baskets as a Bangladeshi shopkeeper sweeps the area outside his roadside butchery in Dhaka on December 31, 2018, a day after the country's general election. (Photo by AFP)
A woman is blessed during a ceremony for Yemanja, goddess of the sea that is part of traditional New Year's celebrations on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 29, 2018. (Photo by AP)
Migrants looks for a place to jump the border fence to get into the US side to San Diego, California, from Tijuana, Mexico, December 29, 2018. (Photo by AFP)
People attend the Edinburgh's Hogmanay torchlight procession down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain, December 30, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)
 Source: presstv.com